[…] Morris's banjo and banjouke improvisations pulse along with William Parker's basslike zintir and Hamid Drake's drumming for an avant-garde Moroccan hoedown.

She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail.

There is now a legal strategy called the Matrix defense, which has been an effective form of insanity defense. The film evidently had a part in inspiring Lee Malvo, the Washington D.C. sniper, and it has been mentioned in connection with the Columbine High School killings, which happened less than a month after the release of The Matrix.

The Flower and Dean St rookery had been home to many of those who lived at least partly by street crime.